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Criterion
Paper illustration for Problem Interview
Product Discovery
Problem Interview
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-5 Tage25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews3-20 ReviewerNutzertraffic1-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer SegmentsRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryInterviewsValidation
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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